ter channels
separating them. These larger grounds are heavily fished both by
American vessels and by those from Nova Scotia ports as well as by
French and English otter trawlers.

The statistics given here and elsewhere in this report are taken from
the published bulletins of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, and
include only the landings of vessels of 5 tons net, or over, at the
ports of Boston and Glouscester, Mass., and Portland, Me.

[Table 5--Fishing grounds of the offshore North Atlantic, showing
the principal species taken upon them]

[Footnote 16: "Pedro Reinel, a Portuguese pilot of much fame" (Herrera)
made a map in 1505 showing Sable Island, feared and dreaded by all
fishermen even in those days, where he called it "Santa Cruz." Jacamo
Gastaldi, an Italian cartographer, in 1548 shows it "Isolla de Arena."
Sir Humphrey Gilbert or his historian, says that the Portuguese had
made an interesting settlement here for shipwrecked mariners. This,
"Upon intelligence we had of a Portugal who was himself present when
the Portugals, above thirty years past (thus before 1551) did put upon
the island neat and swine to breed, which were since exceedingly
multiplied."]

TABLES OF CATCH

[Table 6--Distance from Boston or Gloucester, Mass., to the center
of certain of the more important offshore banks]

[Table 7--Distance from Portland, Me., to the center of certain of the
more important offshore banks]

[Table 8--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from inner or shore grounds, 1927]

[Table 9--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from the outer grounds of the Gulf of Maine, 1927]

[Table 10--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from the fishing grounds of the Georges Bank area,
1927]

[Table 11--Landings by the otter-trawl fleet at Boston and Gloucester,
Mass., and Portland, Me., from the fishing grounds of the Georges Bank
area, 1927]

[Table 12--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from the offshore grounds adjacent to the Gulf of
Maine, 1927]

[Table 13--Landings by fishing vessels at Boston and Gloucester, Mass.,
and Portland, Me., from all grounds, 1927]

[Table 14--Landings by fishing vessels from the various fishing grounds
at Boston and Gloucester, Mass., and Portland, Me., 1927]

[Table 15--La